The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has introduced three new Promoter Members: CableLabs, DTS and PROMISE Technology. These three entities join 26 other Promoter Members spanning the consumer electronics, service provider and mobile device industries in defining the direction of the Alliance. Appointed by the DLNA Board of Directors, Promoter Members actively lead more than […]
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to pass net neutrality rules today after its chairman secured cautious support from two Democratic commissioners who favour stronger regulation of Internet traffic. The move, on the eve of today’s meeting to approve an “open Internet” order pave the way for a compromise that will prevent broadband […]
FilmOn has been halted by a restraining order from the four US networks but now founder Alki David is attacking one of the plaintiffs, CBS with YouTube addresses including ‘CBS You Suck.’ He claims CBS is hypocritical on rights in Internet distributed video and says that through its subsidiary CNET, it has distributed over one […]
Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) and DirecTV, have unveiled an agreement in principle for SMG to assist DirecTV in delivering scaled, household-addressable advertising to customer households with DVRs. The deal, the first of its kind on a national level, will allow SMG to be the first agency network to provide its clients with the ability to […]
Liberty Global has appointed to the position of Managing Director of Unitymedia, Liberty Global’s cable operations in Germany, effective January 1st 2011. Schüler succeeds Gene Musselman who has been serving as CEO and who is retiring from his role as President and COO of UPC Broadband at the end of 2010. Lutz Schüler has served […]
Filipino On Demand, a video on demand television service from ABS-CBN International, the largest Filipino entertainment and broadcast company in the US, has launched on AT&T U-verse TV. Filipino On Demand is available for no extra charge to AT&T U-verse TV customers that subscribe to The Filipino Package or The Filipino Channel.
Digital advertising in the US will exceed ads in newspapers for the first time in 2010, according to researcher eMarketer. Online advertising spending will finish the year with a 13.9 per cent increase to $25.8 billion compared with an 8.2 per cent decline to $22.8 billion for print newspaper ads. “This is a tipping point,” […]
Portuguese cellcos Optimus and Vodafone Portugal have formalised an agreement to roll out a shared fibre network in the cities of Lisbon and Porto. The partnership will enable each company to launch its own independent commercial services. Optimus commented: ‘This partnership will allow the two operators to achieve commercial offerings under the new framework, in […]
The Digital TV Group (DTG), the industry association for digital television in the UK, has welcomed the joint UK and Ireland government statement on the transmission of RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) and TG4 (Teilifís na Gaeilge) services in Northern Ireland, which will see a new Irish multiplex carried in Northern Ireland using the technical standard […]
Hulu, which has been tipped for a New Year IPO, is now said to be exploring alternative means of raising capital, including getting existing investors to inject more capital, says the WSJ. Many US reports have previously predicted the online video site was angling for an IPO to raise $200 million to $300 million – […]